Billy, just a thought for you to consider. 1) Research and obtain any removal tools, copying them to a CD or memory stick. 2) Remove Norton FIRST. 3) DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET until you have removed whatever you wish to remove. 4) Install whatever software you can BEFORE you install the items listed at 5). 5) Install virus checker, Windows Defender and firewall, BEFORE you finally make that connection to the Internet. Hopefully this will minimise problems with a virus checker taking possible exception to any changes to Registry and such like. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: 13 May 2007 22:02 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: xp home? I share your worries. Remove both (with a sledge hammer) just as soon as you recover. There are tools to completely remove Norton. I'm not sure about AOL, but suspect that as long as you don't set it up, you may be O.K., but see if it can be removed anyway. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TrueBlue & Proud Sent: 13 May 2007 21:49 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: xp home? George, sorry I didn't explain myself too well. I'm having the same worries about the recovery disk in question. It has AOL,=3D20 & Norton included. Shocking you'll agree. Billy ----- Original Message -----=3D20 From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:15 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: xp home? Sorry, Billy, you didn't mention the reformat and it being the same system. That said, it's not an easy job to do this with recovery disks without seeing them in full detail. Also, they SHOULD install any necessary drivers. I had terrible trouble when I reformatted and installed a pure XP Home onto my Toshiba satellite. The screen screwed up, there was no sound, and all sorts. In the end, I finally found and used the Recovery Disk, then immediately removed any extraneous garbage like AOL. Thankfully, Toshiba didn't include Norton, which was by biggest worry. The second biggest was updating the whole thing, but again thankfully, I found my XP SP2 CD, so it wasn't quite such a long haul there. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TrueBlue & Proud Sent: 13 May 2007 20:11 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: xp home? George, I didn't want to run 2 copies of the software on 2 systems. I want to format the computer that has the recovery disk software, and just=3D3D20 Install the xp home software on it's own, without the other things on the=3D3D20 recovery disk. You know me better than that man, Billy ----- Original Message -----=3D3D20 From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: xp home? Hi Billy, Running the same version of XP on two system is illegal. And encouraging illegal software use is a taboo subject here. Sorry, George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TrueBlue & Proud Sent: 13 May 2007 18:57 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] xp home? hi guys, is it possible for someone to Install windows xp home from a recovery disk. The person in question, doesn't want to Install the whole recovery disk, but=3D3D3D20 just to be able to copy the OEM xp home onto a disk, and then Install xp=3D3D3D20 onto another computer system in her home. 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